As the wheel spins and turns

[sovay]

I cannot count this as a contributor's copy, but selidor has sent me the very first image of Vanth, taken from the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005. Yes, I'm going to put it up on my wall. What else does one do with a sky of chthonic figures? In both senses, awesome.

Not so awesome is the smell of burning that just came in sharply through the windows and the flakes of ash falling onto our yard. I can see white and brown smoke rising when I look out the front door, a helicopter circling; I can't tell the distance. I hope it is not someone's house. The air is turning peat-blue. The first thing I think when cinders start drifting down is Pompeii.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Uh-oh! I remember when houses** exploded in your town, close to where my grandmother lived. Yikes.

It may be a brush fire--the weather has been very dry and there have been lots of alerts. You could check the local news maybe.

That's lovely about Vanth :-)

**ETA--I guess it was just one house? Gas leak?

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

What else does one do with a sky of chthonic figures?

Write about them!

But an image of Vanth! Your godchild. That is truly madly deeply awesome.

I hope you are not in Pompeii.

Nine

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

hope you are upwind of whatever is burning, and that the fire dept responds quickly and efficiently.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

That's awesome news about Vanth.

The smell of burning, however, is not good. I hope nobody's hurt, and most especially that it stays well away from you and yours. Wood knocked, fingers crossed, etc.

And Pompeii-type events had better not be in greater Boston, for all sorts of reasons.